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Collection: Area 7: Deer Valley and Martinez, Contra Costa Contra Costa County, California, USA
Age | 70.6 - 66 Ma (Late/Upper Cretaceous) |
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Interval | Late Maastrichtian |
Lat/Long | 37.9167,-121.833 |
Co-ordinates derived from | based on nearby landmark |
Location | Area 7: Deer Valley and Martinez |
Mindat.org Region (for given coordinates) | Contra Costa County, California, USA |
Geographic Scale | local area |
Geographic Comments | near Martinez, Deer Valley and Riggs Canyon |
Stratigraphic Scale | group of beds |
Straigraphic Comments | near or at the top of the Great Valley Series |
Lithology | "siliciclastic" |
Environment | coastal indet. |
Recorded Fossils
Accepted Name | Hierarchy | Preservation | Age |
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Perissitys genus | Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Turbinellidae : Perissitys | aragonite | 70.6 - 66 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous |
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!